Your phone comes with strong built-in spam protection—you just need to turn it on. Here's how to do it on both iPhone and ...

If you tap Ask Reason for Calling, your iPhone will ask anyone who calls you from an unsaved number why they are calling you without ringing your iPhone. After the caller answers a few questions, your ...

(NEXSTAR) – Does it seems like you received more robocalls in 2025 than the year before? According to data released Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), complaints about the obnoxious phone ...

WE’VE ALL HEARD IT BEFORE. TIME IS MONEY, RIGHT? AND NOTHING IS MORE FRUSTRATING THAN WASTING YOUR TIME ON SPAM CALLS. NEVER MIND FALLING VICTIM TO ONE WESH TOS. LINDSAY LOHAN FOUND MORE OF THOSE ...

If you've gotten a mysterious message on your cellphone that looks like it came from your own phone number, do not click on the link. Verizon customers have reported receiving these messages over the ...

Julie Watts is a national-award-winning investigative correspondent for CBS News, covering California. Her investigations, Capitol accountability reports, and solutions-oriented journalism air weekly ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Federal Communications Commission this year has shut down 1,400 phone companies it alleges failed to protect consumers against unauthorized robocalls, ...

These simple rules help you decide when to answer the phone—and when to let it ring. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking ...

There are few more frustrating iPhone experiences than receiving a spam call. Whether it’s interrupting your work or play, it doesn’t take much for a junk call to take you out of the moment. The ...

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer ...

The network-based assistant will automatically screen calls from unknown numbers. The network-based assistant will automatically screen calls from unknown numbers. is a news writer who covers the ...

AT&T is testing out an agentic AI tool that can identify and filter out robocallers. The “digital receptionist” screens calls to determine if the caller is human, how urgent the call is, and whether ...